What's new?  We've outlined our recent projects on this page.  It's a nice way to keep tabs on us, without the expense of hiring a private detective.

KU Cancer "Game On": Photography project to support advertisement campaign (newspaper ad, billboard, website) featuring three cancer research doctors and four KU football players.

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The Sprint Center: Kansas City's newest landmark is taking shape, and Gregg Riess Photography LLC is there to capture portraits & architecture images to celebrate the effort.  Mayor Funkhouser stops by as well.

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KU Basketball: Late Night at The Phog.  the annual Late Nite at The Phog hosted at Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas.

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Traffic Stopping Portraits: We take it to the streets & stop traffic in the process.  We had a blast photographing KC Chiefs cheerleader Celine in the inner city.  

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Architecture Showcases?: Have you noticed that Kansas City has transformed itself beyond fountains. We're quietly taking shape as one of the more interesting architecture showcases. Come take a look through our viewfinder and enjoy the sites.

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Sports Feature- Baseball: Contract with us to photograph your special athlete. With packages starting at $750, you can capture the action & excitement for years of enjoyment. We photograph these athletes at 8.5 frames per second.

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Kansas City Senior Portraits: We've waited 18 years, and now they're here. They're the high school senior class of 2008. They want dynamic, cool, classy, edgy, fun, exciting, real portraits. And, they want them now! We have appointments available for indoor & outdoor combintation sessions in August, September & October. It's not too late! Visit us at KansasCitySeniorPortraits.com

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What Thousand Words Does Your Picture Say?: A picture is worth a thousand words. In 2007, you need to look your very best on-line. Your clients, business partners and prospective customers want to look you right in the eye and make a judgment: Are they competent? Can I work with them? Therefore, what does your picture say when they ask those questions?

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Flashback: Priest Holmes: It's training camp time with the Kansas City Chiefs, and we're hearing a familiar name: Priest Holmes! Will he play? We don't know, but here's a flashback to feature one of our favorite running backs of all time!

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Kansas City Sports Commission: Sprint Nextel honors Will Shields at the annual Kansas City Sports Commission awards banquet utilizing portraits from Gregg Riess Photography LLC.  A limited edition poster is designed & produced along with large-format portraits are donated to benefit the cause during the silent auction.

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Urban Glamour?: What do you get when you place a high school senior in the grunge & mess of an urban environment?  You get great contrasting styles, beauty and grace...you get "Urban" Kayli.

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Mr. Will Shields: We're betting that you've never seen Will like this.  Take a look at some of the samples from our photo session with Will at one of his favorite causes: Operation Breakthrough / St Vincents.

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New Exhibit: It's a new brand, a new site.  We're launching Athlete Beauty to celebrate & showcase the athletes we've photographed that have beauty more than skin deep.

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Award Winning Women: Custom images produced as "Image Featurettes" for WIN-KC's 13th Annual Women's Sports Awards Celebration. 

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Miss Central Missouri:  Kara Adams was crowned Miss Central Missouri, and we're proud to feature her as one of our clients! We worked with Kara to create several different looks for her publicity material. In case you're wondering, I didn't get to wear the crown!

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Book Cover...Kansas City Sports. We're judging this book by it's cover. MetroSports is publishing this interesting book about the history of Kansas City sports. Remember the KC Blues? I don't -- but that doesn't prevent us from creating the cover shot that's a walk down memory lane.  >>>Click here to view.

Emerging Model:  Model headshots for emerging model Katie - destined for greatness with Dove & Ponds campaigns.

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Business Headshot:  Tate Gibson Communications is an award-winning strategic communications firm located in Kansas City, Missouri, that specializes in public relations, marketing communications and public affairs. 

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Simone Award 2006 Celebrating the most outstanding football talent in the greater Kansas City area featuring Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson and KC Chief Jared Allen.  >>>Click here to view.

Showcase: Dancer Portrait Soon-to-be-professional dancer in New York, Cassie collaborates with Gregg Riess Photography produce her headshot portrait.  >>>Click here to view.

Showcase: Business Portrait for Promotion If it's important that you look your best...do what Courtney did: hire Gregg Riess Photography to update your look. Courtney's clients turn to her to look great...she turns to us!  >>>Click here to view.

Team Spirit / Team Portrait: You've built the team, now leverage their spirit. Corporate image development for external (holiday cards, brochures, websites) and internal (newsletter, Intranet, bulletin boards). Those sales leaders at Time Warner Cable are spunky!

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Kansas City Sprint Center: Founding Partner announcement featuring Farmland.

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Buck O'Neil Public Memorial: Join Joe Morgan, Ernie Banks, Ken Burns and others as they celebrate Buck O'Neil's life

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Buck O'Neil: Buck, you will be missed!

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Dock Dogs: Flying dogs at a NASCAR race?

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Blue Angels: US Navy Blue Angels make a visit to Kansas City. 

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Architecture / Real Estate Feature: Custom images produced for 4T Total Lawn, Inc. 

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Corporate Business Portraits: RHGM, Metro Sports, Ingram's Magazine, RH Johnson, Marketsphere Consulting, Assurant Benefits.

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Model Showcase: Updated from our archives...our latest showcase model portfolio. 

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Senior Showcase: Our latest showcase high school senior. 

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RH Johnson Company: Project to update & upgrade corporate images that reflect the RH Johnson as a leading commercial real estate firm in the Midwest.

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Kansas City Sports Commission: Sprint Nextel honors Buck O'Neil at the annual Kansas City Sports Commission awards banquet utilizing portraits from Gregg Riess Photography LLC.  A limited edition poster is designed & produced along with five large-format portraits are donated to benefit the cause during the silent auction..

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Business Portraits: When you're ready to take your business image to the next level, contact us for a dynamic business "headshot" portrait.   We're doing a lot of Reece & Nichols agents recently. 

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Buck O'Neil: Certainly our top citizen in Kansas City. Buck is an inspiration to us all. At 94, he's still going strong as he inspires young & old. Seldom does he slow down, but we caught him recently for a shoot that's leading to a secret project with our friends at the Kansas City Sports Commission & Foundation.

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Headshot Showcase: Celine is one of our favorite clients. Recently she called and booked a headshot session so she could bring her best look to the KC Chiefs cheer try-outs. We had a blast producing several unique looks. We weren't surprised to hear she'll be cheering with the squad this year! Congrats, Celine!!!

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Business Portraits: When you're ready to take your business image to the next level, contact us for a dynamic business "headshot" portrait.   We're doing a lot of Reece & Nichols agents recently. 

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Steve and Debbie Palermo: A remarkable couple with a remarkable story.  Steve and Debbie inspire everyone they meet.  Photographed for Assurant Employee Benefits for use in annual reports, public relations, marketing, website, etc. 

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Magazine Shoot: Magazine shoot at Clinical Reference Laboratory for Clinical Lab Products magazine.  Client: Olympus Lab Automation. 

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Award Winning Women: Custom images produced as "Image Featurettes" for WIN-KC's 12th Annual Women's Sports Awards Celebration. 

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Kansas Jayhawks: NCAA Big 12 men's basketball featuring KU vs. Oklahoma and Missouri at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, KS. 

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Simone Award 2005: Celebrating the most outstanding football talent in the greater Kansas City area featuring Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus.  Click here to view.

Senior Portraits: our Portrait Division always has a new batch of senior portraits for your review. Click here to view.

Border War: Kansas vs. Missouri: Sideline photography featuring Missouri's Brad Smith against the Kansas defensive line.  Click here to view select images. 

Aerial photography & architecture project: Demolition of the Olathe, Kansas-based Delphi battery plant.  Click here to view select images. 

Architecture portfolio & stock images: Project, portfolio & stock images featuring architecture photography of Gregg Riess.

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Busch Stadium St. Louis: See old versus new as St Louis erects a new era in baseball history.  A personal project.  Click here to view select images. 

Youth Baseball Player Feature: Professional feature of non-professional play.  Here's a sampling of our Player Feature offering that focuses on a young pitcher in St. Louis.  Click here to view the select images.

Trent Green Poster

for KC Sports Commission: commissioned by the Kansas City Sports Commission to photograph and design a commemorative poster for the 33rd Awards Banquet.  Click here to view the poster prototype and select images of Trent. 

Metro Sports:

These folks know sports, and we know photography.  So, it makes sense that we should collaborate.  Gregg Riess Photography serves as the official still photographer for Kansas City's Metro Sports.  Click here to view. 

High School All-Stars: Greater Kansas City Basketball Coaches Association and Monster Sports LLC in collaboration with Gregg Riess Photography LLC produce & capture images of the 2005 All-Stars portraits, awards banquet, games and half-time contests.   Click here to view.

Big 12 Women's Coaches: KC civic leaders coupled with Big 12 Women's coaches on the eve of the tournament in Kansas City.  Click here to view.

Award Winning Women: Custom images produced as "Image Featurettes" for WIN-KC's 11th Annual Women's Sports Awards Celebration.  Click here to view.

Basketball shoot out:

12 games in two days were photographed for Metro Sports.  The annual event, Hy-Vee Shoot Out, matches Missouri and Kansas schools. Click here to view. 

NFL Football with the Chiefs: The hometown team in the hometown stadium.  Take a glimpse from the sidelines.   Click here to view.

Senior Portraits: We always have a new batch of senior portraits for your review. Click here to view.

Jennie & Buck: Olympian gold medal pitcher Jennie Finch with Kansas City's own Buck O'Neil to benefit Project SOS.  Click here to view.

Farewell, Mia!: Participating in the “Fan Celebration Tour” Olympic Gold Medalist Mia Hamm plays in Kansas City for the last time.  Click here to view.

Rock & Roll Gymnastics: Olympic Gold Medalist Paul Hamm and friends. Click here to view.

Tennis, anyone?:

Action photography featuring tennis at the Plaza Tennis facility.  St. Teresa's Academy versus Pembroke Hill. 

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Spring Hill Drill Team: Promote and celebrate a new era of dance performance with the Spring Hill Storm Dancers.  Click here to view the commemorative poster. 

Freddy Adu: Feature assignment to photograph teenage sensation (he's 15 years-old!) Freddy Adu.    Click here to view the images from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City for Kansas City Sports Page. 

Dante Hall Poster for KC Sports Commission: commissioned by the Kansas City Sports Commission to photograph and design a commemorative poster for the 32nd Awards Banquet.  Click here to view the poster prototype and select images of Dante. 

Olympian Jennie Finch for Bushnell and Bolle: Project for sponsors Bushnell and Bolle.  Photograph Jennie Finch of the 2004 US Olympic Team for use in marketing initiatives for Bushnell (speed guns) and Bolle (sunglasses).   Click here to view the resulting images

Golden Gloves Boxing - National Championship: The prestigious Golden Gloves boxing organization held their National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in Kansas City, MO on March 3-8, 2004.  Click here to view the resulting images. 

Blue Valley North High School: The Mustangs of BVN will be leveraging custom SporTrait images from Gregg Riess Photography in the 2004-2005 school year to illustrate the wide range of activities & sports offered at the school.  Look for the variations of the BVN SporTraits on posters, activity guides and other marketing deliverables.  Click here to view some of the prototype images. 

KC Classic Youth Basketball: Gregg Riess Photography is teamed with Greater Kansas City Sports Commission and Foundation to serve as the Official Photographer for 2004 Inaugural Kansas City Classic Youth Basketball Tournament.
Click here to view some of the images and commemorative poster. 

Digital Advertisement Project: "Coach Kevin" and Softride: Digital image project to promote professional triathlon coach.  Results were used for Coach Kevin's web site, marketing deliverables and other creative concepts. Images are also being used in a Spring/Summer marketing campaign for the Softride bicycle company to promote their riders in Triathlete Magazine (circulation 97,000), on their web site, and other outlets.  Click here to view the resulting images. 

Bulldogs Baseball:

The team has been together for a long time.  Now, it's time to play your final tourney and then say good-bye.  Capture the action, and create one-of-a-kind team, coach and player posters for the final team banquet.  Click here to view. 

Shawnee Mission East Cheerleaders:

We have spirit, yes we do.  How about you? 

Work in process on special projects.  Click here to view. 

Basketball players:

We shoot a lot "between the lines" but our dramatic portraits of the athletes are just as interesting.  SM East basketball seniors: BJ Adams is headed to Kansas University, while Brooke Jandl will enroll at Duke. Click here to view. 

Soccer player:

One of our favorite assignments is to work with a senior athlete on their portfolio.  Saint Thomas Aquinas' Oran Andrews will be attending Bradley in the fall.

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Emerging models:

We are often asked to help models and prospective models build their portfolio.  We provide coaching on wardrobe, make-up, location, posing and other attributes to help produce portfolio shots that meet their needs. Models come in all shapes, sizes and ages.  Click here for more.

Hockey club SporTraits:

Custom imagery for the Carriage Club Hockey Teams.  Team SporTraits and Player SporTraits.   Click here to view. 

Saint Thomas Aquinas Drill Team:

Lots of sessions with the STA Drill Team resulted in a 2004 calendar including a Squad SporTrait for the cover.  Camouflage, Santa, formal: it's all covered.   Click here to view.